Oil Change Info for 2013+ Hybrid/Energi

[GrySql]

I have set of those, cant get the car up them, the buggers keep moving! LOL Some great mind thought, hey why should we put rubber feet on the, they wont go anywhere. Yeah...........right.

Duct tape'em to the cement floor.

[acdii]

oh, so chiseling the groove for them in the concrete wasn't such a great idea? :)

[terryb]

I place mine against the edge of the garage floor which is about 1/2" higher than the driveway

[rollmeaway9]

I just bought my FFH last month...I am a DiY'er. When I asked the salseman about changing the oil he said to me that I should be very careful because of the...as he put it "High Voltage wires" then can electrocute you if touched. I laughed to myself about that, and did not want to emabarass him in front of my wife.

Since I am near the mileage for an oil change (I drive a lot)...has anyone heard of any safety precasautions for doing any general maintenance with regardds to the Hybrid system?

[Eddie Sessum]

I just bought my FFH last month...I am a DiY'er. When I asked the salseman about changing the oil he said to me that I should be very careful because of the...as he put it "High Voltage wires" then can electrocute you if touched. I laughed to myself about that, and did not want to emabarass him in front of my wife.

Since I am near the mileage for an oil change (I drive a lot)...has anyone heard of any safety precasautions for doing any general maintenance with regardds to the Hybrid system?

 

 

You get your first oil change free at the purchasing dealership. Id use it, its free after all.

[thavil]

You get your first oil change free at the purchasing dealership. Id use it, its free after all.

 

Not all dealers offer a free first oil change, mine didn't.

[Eddie Sessum]

I could have sworn that was a Ford program and the dealer who sold u the car was the only one who could it to get the credit

[murphy]

Not all dealers offer a free first oil change, mine didn't.

Neither did mine. Sounds like a ploy to get you in so they can try to sell you something else.

[Eddie Sessum]

Just looked on the owner advantage rewards website. When you purchase a vehicle and it gets registered ford puts a free oil change on that vehicle for use only at the purchasing dealership. So it is something you get free as a reward from ford for purchasing.

 

Did your dealership register you for it? I got my cards about 3 weeks after purchasing direct from ford and they mentioned my free oil change. But i got everything included till 50k miles so ill get that one after the 50k change i guess.

[murphy]

All of the dealers around here have dropped out of the Owner Advantage program. My previous dealer dropped the program in the summer of 2009. My current dealer dropped the program in March of this year.

[corncobs]

My dealer is also not part of the Owners Avantage Program but my first oil change was free as part of the purchase.

[Eddie Sessum]

I guess that would make sense than. Only the big truck dealership here isnt a member of that and I figured that was because they couldnt sell regular vehicles just SUVs and trucks.

[thavil]

Just logged onto my Owners Advantage account for the first time I think. I do have a $14.40 credit for service that I didn't know about. For oil changes though, I see that I have one of four oil change purchases needed to get a free oil change. Nothing about that my first one should have been free. Can't complain though, my first The Works oil change at $39.99 came with a $10.00 rebate. Came out cheaper than Wally World!

[GrySql]

The $39.00 The Works oil change at my Dealer used partial synthetic oil, I wanted full synthetic, just my preference. That would have been free on my first oil change.

I bought a 5 qt jug of Mobil 1 at Wally world and had them use that, so my net oil change cost was the $25 for the Mobil 1, they provided the Motorcraft filter.

Plus, because I gave them the 5 qt jug of oil there was no issue of overfilling.

[kuzzi]

I learned something interesting about synthetics a couple of days ago when looking to change oil brands on the bike. Turns out Mobil1 uses a partial amount of Dino oil and can still call it full synthetic due to some SAE standards or something. The only real full synthetics are AMSOil and a couple others.

 

Here is the article:

 

http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/Oils1.html

[GrySql]

I learned something interesting about synthetics a couple of days ago when looking to change oil brands on the bike. Turns out Mobil1 uses a partial amount of Dino oil and can still call it full synthetic due to some SAE standards or something. The only real full synthetics are AMSOil and a couple others.

 

Here is the article:

 

http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/Oils1.html

When I find something that works I stick with it, which is my problem here.

However, now that I have read the article you linked to I can feel good about re-cycling my oil and saving the children from walking to school because their school buses can use the re-conditioned synthetic oil. That is wonderful, I am completely satisfied now about my costly choice in oils. ;)

 

Nice article, thank you, always good to learn something new.

[Eddie Sessum]

Some vehicles aren't designed for synthetic.. A good example of that is the new power stroke. I asked my dealership here and they said they would get in trouble for putting full synthetic if something happened under warranty. Don't know the reasoning

[acdii]

Diesels tend to consume some oil, and maybe the full synthetics cause issues with the injectors and emissions post exhaust.

[Eddie Sessum]

As far as I know the new 6.7 doesn't. If anything a little diesel gets into the oil. It filled a 15qt oil pan than some when I changed the oil.

[acdii]

I ran Shell Rotella in the 7.3, and got 10K between changes, could have gone longer with a remote filter setup. From that experience going synthetic would have been a waste. With the bypass filter setup and full synthetic, you can only get about 20K, but at more than twice the price of the dino, which could see 15K with the bypass.

 

In the gas engines though, going full synthetic is well worth the price. I'm considering Royal Purple for the next oil change on the Flex, but sticking with Motorcraft semi on the HyTi, it doesn't run hard enough to warrant it.

[clummus]

Does anyone know how to reset the oil life warning? When they changed my oil at 7000 miles they didn't reset it, and now it is telling me to change my oil soon at 9700 miles. I know I could take it by there, but wondered if any of you had reset it yourself.

[Eddie Sessum]

It's in the left screen under vehicle.

[Kaleido]

Not all dealers offer a free first oil change, mine didn't.

Mine offers the first oil change FREE, and every oil change after that is half price for as long as you own the car. Half price is $22.50 ! I couldn't buy the oil and filter for that price, plus they fill the windshield washers and check tire pressure and check all the fluids. Just got it done today

[vangonebuy]

DIY 8500 first change.

Oil looked dirty, but not black.

Motorcraft oil filter and semi syn oil. Just to keep it warranty aligned..

The undermotor cover came off pretty easy,, But raising the car with a hydralic jack was a pain.. The bottom has few jack points and the FFH is very low to the ground.

Ramps would be best.

 

 

If I could get a discounted oil change next time. I probably will.

[murphy]

If you buy ramps get the low profile version. My old steel ramps, that I've had at least 30 years, didn't work. The bumper hit the ramp while the tire was still a foot away from the ramp. They worked fine on my 2010 Fusion.